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Pureprint Group makes Sunday Times Green list

Edited by the Marketingservicestalk editorial team May 28, 2008

Pureprint Group, including Beacon Press, has been named one of the UK's 50 Best Green Companies as part of the inaugural Sunday Times Green List.

The group topped the list of the Best Green Companies in the South-East and ranked fourth nationwide.

The Sunday Times Green list is a definitive guide to companies with the most radically improved environmental performances.

The Sunday Times, working with environmental consultants Bureau Veritas and market research group Munro Global, devised the methodology for the competition.

Uniquely, the survey took account of the views of employees - who got to rate their organisation's green credentials - as well as assessing the environmental performance, policies and practices of businesses.

Pureprint, which prides itself as the UK's leading environmentally sound and sustainable print group, beat a host of other companies, big and small with varying environmental impacts, to lift the title at an awards ceremony held on London's South Bank on 14 May.

Richard Caseby, managing editor of The Sunday Times, said at the launch of the awards: "The 50 companies in this survey are all pioneers - enterprising, enlightened and fizzing with new ideas.

"All have a common sense of purpose about their corporate social responsibility.

"There may be plenty of environmental awards but this is the first that has both a robust methodology to measure environmental performance and a survey of each company's staff to find out whether the green sheen is more than skin-deep".

Mark Handford, Chief Executive of Pureprint, said: "This achievement is a credit to the thorough practices developed by our management team and the full commitment of all Pureprint employees in implementing our rigorous environmental procedures day in day out.

"The printing and paper industry in the UK is now starting to deliver some significant environmental initiatives and we are pleased to use awards like this to fly the flag for the industry in the wider business community".